Miles Alexander Teller (born
February 20, 1987) is
an American actor. An alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he made his
feature film debut in Rabbit Hole (2010), which he
followed with supporting roles in Footloose (2011) and Project X(2012).
Teller rose to prominence with
his roles as Sutter Keely in the romantic drama The Spectacular Now (2013) and
Andrew Neiman in Whiplash (2014). He has since
starred in the dystopian action film Divergent (2014), the superhero film Fantastic Four (2015) as Mister Fantastic,
the comedy War Dogs (2016), opposite Jonah Hill,
and portrayed boxer Vinny Paz in the biopic Bleed for This(2016).
Early Life
Teller was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, of
parents Merry and Mike. He
has two older sisters, Erin and Dana. His paternal grandfather was
of Russian-Jewish descent, and his ancestry
also includes English and Irish. The family moved to Citrus County, Florida, when Teller was 12. He
also lived in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
At Lecanto High School, he played the alto
saxophone in a rock band, was a drummer for a church-youth
group band, and was president of the drama club. He can also play piano
and guitar and was on the baseball team, hoping to turn professional. Aside
from high school, Teller worked as a server at a restaurant called Crackers. He
earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he studied method acting at
the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film
Institute.
In 2007, he was a passenger in a car that lost control at
80 mph and flipped eight times, he was ejected through the window. He has
multiple visible scars on his face from the accident.
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